Tweddle Group Outward Mindset

"Your success as a leader... depends on being free of self-betrayal. Only then do you invite others to be free of self-betrayal themselves." - Leadership and Self-Deception

Always remember, that it is progress, not perfection, that you should be looking for.

The story of Tubular Steel & Arbinger. I believe this was the inspiration for Leadership & Self Deception.

Where in the pyramid are you stuck?

The best reason to brand someone with a pejorative label is to push them away, to forestall useful conversation, to turn them into the other. Much more useful: Identify the behavior that's counter-productive. When we talk about the behavior, we have a chance to make change happen. What would happen if the behavior stopped? When we call someone misogynist or racist or sexist or a capitalist, a socialist or an abstract expressionist, what are we hoping for? Every one of us is on the 'ist' spectrum, so the label becomes meaningless. Meaningless labels are noise, noise that lasts. If that person stopped acting like a _____ist, what would change? Because if there's nothing we want to change, the labeling is useless. And if there's a change that needs to be made, let's talk about what it is.

How the simple decision to engage with the men on the street and see them as people rather than criminals allowed a few officers to change the whole dynamic of the neighborhood and dramatically reduce crime.

Great story about how Arbinger helped transform a culture.

A new edition of the Anatomy of Peace has been released.

""They have a real passion for detail," Mark Grein, executive director at Specialisterne, said in an interview from Stamford, Connecticut. "They tend to be very good at following a process, improving a process, optimizing a process." SAP SE, the German software maker, has hired 53 workers worldwide since 2012 through its Autism at Work program and is aiming for 1% of its staff, currently at 74,500, by 2020. "We do have clear anecdotal evidence of business benefits from our pilot program," including gains in productivity, quality, customer relations, people management and innovation, said Jose Velasco, who heads SAP's autism program in the U.S."

"A new study from PR firm Weber Shandwick found that CEOs from the world's 50 most lucrative companies are using Twitter and LinkedIn more than they did two years ago, but have deserted Facebook completely. The study, which looked at social media use by CEOs running the top 50 companies on Fortune's 2014 Global 500 rankings list, found that 10 percent of those CEOs are on Twitter, up from just two percent in 2012. LinkedIn was the most popular network, with 22 percent of CEOs on the platform, up from just 6 percent in 2012."

Watch the week 8 video and then think about these two questions: 1. Think about a current problem we are facing as a team 2. How could I more fully involve others in the problem solving process?

Excellent video - a wonderful reminder of what the principles are all about.

Watch week 7 and then answer the following: Identify 1 person who will be affected by my work today. What information could I gather, or change I could make that would help them today? Do it!

As leaders it is worth considering reducing time spent supervising and holding our direct reports accountable for their work and results.

Take a look at the week 6 video and wait for the questions at the end.

Week 5 Booster Shot - wait for the questions at the end of the talk. Take a moment and reflect on them!

Week 4 video is another great talk by Chip Huth. It has a couple of follow-up questions that we should all take the time to answer.

When we're defending a physical castle, it's entirely possible that hating outsiders is a useful tool. But in a connection economy, hating the other almost always destroys the hater.

I heard about this story at one an Arbinger event. Thank you to H for providing it in hard copy. This is a remarkable story!

Thirty years ago today, two former University of Michigan students who had met in jobs at a restaurant opened the doors of a gamble. Zingerman's Deli was meant to replicate a great New York deli, except that it was located in a college town.